Helmuth Nürnberger

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Helmuth Nürnberger (born January 19, 1930 in Brüx , Czechoslovakia ; † November 19, 2017 ) was a German specialist in German. He was considered "the doyen of Fontane research".

Life

Helmuth Nürnberger studied philology and history in Münster and Hamburg. The doctor of German studies taught modern German literature in Flensburg and Hamburg . He has made a name for himself above all as a profound expert and editor of the works of Theodor Fontane . His first Fontane monograph ( The early Fontane , 1967) met with so much attention and approval that the Hanser-Verlag asked him to edit Fontane's works, writings and letters (“Munich Fontane Edition”) (together with Walther Keitel ).

A standard work is his history of German literature (now in its 25th edition). He has also edited the stories by Gottfried Keller and about Joseph Roth and Pope Johannes XXIII. published.

For a long time Nürnberger was chairman of the Theodor Fontane Society founded in 1990 , later its honorary chairman.

Fonts

  • The early Fontane , 1967
  • Theodor Fontane . Rowohlt picture monograph, 1968
  • Joseph Roth . Rowohlt picture monograph, 1981
  • John XXIII Rowohlt picture monograph, 1985
  • Oswald von Wolkenstein . Rowohlt picture monograph, 1986 (with Karen Baasch)
  • Fontane's World , 1997
  • History of German Literature . Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 25th, completely revised edition 2006
  • Fontane Lexicon. Names - substances - contemporary history . Hanser, Munich 2007 (with Dietmar Storch)
  • 'On the stairs of Sanssouci'. Studies on Fontane . Edited by Michael Ewert and Christine Hehle. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2016. ISBN 978-3-8260-5771-7

As co-editor

  • with Walther Keitel: Theodor Fontane: works, writings, letters. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich, 3rd edition 1990 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Nürnberger: Obituary notice of the wife. In: daily newspaper. shz, November 25, 2017, accessed November 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Steinfeld : Helmuth Nürnberger has died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 22, 2017, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Helmuth Nürnberger (author portrait by Rowohlt Verlag), accessed on March 8, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Nürnberger, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Most , Brüx, Northern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2017